Been warning for years that cell phones were spy devices, in every sense it can be. Proven many times.
Now, they are using your cell phone to come after you. For freedom of assembly. Freedom of Speech.
We are now a communist country. Believe it.
DB
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Mr. Warzel and Mr. Thompson are writers in Opinion. They previously reported on smartphone tracking for the series “One Nation, Tracked.”
In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file
containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual
smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to
be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans.
It
became clear that this data — collected by smartphone apps and then fed
into a dizzyingly complex digital advertising ecosystem — was a
liability to national security, to free assembly and to citizens living
mundane lives. It provided an intimate record of people whether they
were visiting drug treatment centers, strip clubs, casinos, abortion
clinics or places of worship.
Surrendering
our privacy to the government would be foolish enough. But what is more
insidious is the Faustian bargain made with the marketing industry,
which turns every location ping into currency as it is bought and sold
in the marketplace of surveillance advertising.
Now, one year later, we’re in a very similar position. But it’s far worse.
A
source has provided another data set, this time following the
smartphones of thousands of Trump supporters, rioters and passers-by in
Washington, D.C., on January 6, as Donald Trump’s political rally turned
into a violent insurrection. At least five people died because of the
riot at the Capitol. Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the
event’s digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial
recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing.
